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Monday, January 12, 2009

Blogging in 2008

In 2008, I spent a lot of time blogging, both here in Under The Stairs, and on my PowerShell scripts blog (http://pshscripts.blogspot.com) and my corporate blog (http://cacorner.blogspot.com). The first two of these blogs had a lot of PowerShell content (especially the PowerShell Scripts blog which was all PowerShell).

Traffic varied a bit over the year, but really picked up in the autumn, as follows:

Month

Under The Stairs Unique visitors

Under The Stairs Page views

PowerShell Scripts Unique visitors

PowerShell Scripts Page views

January

4,940

6,738

February

4,919

6,683

March

4,882

6,724

April

4,258

5,728

May

4,118

5,673

June

4,157

5,699

July

4,696

6,521

438

764

August

4,234

5,846

183

285

September

4,292

5,830

165

252

October

4,649

6,267

253

363

November

5,588

7,642

434

711

December

6,743

9,636

1,132

1,884

As this table shows, I had more traffic towards the end of the year, which I attribute to posting more. I was motivated by what I saw at TechEd to up my level of posting, which has paid off in more traffic.

The PowerShell Scripts blog was started in July. However from Aug-September, it did not see much traffic mainly because I was did not post during those months. (due to being pretty busy with my day job).

With the release of PowerShell V2 CTP3, interest in the new features has driven a lot of traffic to both blogs. And with the newly released Windows 7 betas, I hope this interest will continue.